Disclaimer: I do not own "Veronica Mars". Rob Thomas does.

AN: Thanks a lot for the reviews. I really like reading them and it encourages me to keep writing. I had a little trouble writing this chapter. I had some ideas, but I did not know how to write them down. Yes, I know… Chapter two and already I have trouble with the writing. Sue me. P Anyway, I hope you still enjoy this chapter. Review please.

Q/A: JazzieAngel wrote: "… but why couldn't Duncan give Veronica a ride to school?"

You're right about that… I didn't think of it. Thanks for your question. I can use it in my story. Well… Sort of, I guess. P

The next morning Logan entered the kitchen and saw a girl sitting at the table, flipping the pages of a paper.

"Good morning," she said.

Logan's sleepy eyes tried to adjust to the light, when he looked at the girl. She was wearing a brown skirt and a light pink blouse. Then he remembered the girl. It was Julia! How could he forget!

"Good morning," he tried to say when he yawned. Then he spotted the paper, while Julia flipped another page. "Which paper is it?"

Julia looked at the front page again. "Yesterday's," she said and went back to the page she was reading.

"Yesterday's?" Logan looked through the window and saw a paper in front of the door. "Today's is on the porch."

"I'll go get it." She folded yesterday's paper and got up to get today's. When she came back she sat back on a chair and started flipping its pages. "Don't you have anything to eat in your house?"

"Food?"

Julia laughed and looked up at Logan. "I guess. What do you eat if it's not food?"

Logan looked around. "I don't know. I don't eat in the mornings. I try to sleep as long as I can, which is not long enough." He ended with a yawn and started for the stairs again.

"Do you know if there's a bus that goes to Neptune High?"

When Logan heard the words 'Neptune High', he quickly turned around. "What time is it?"

"Half past seven," Julia answered, still waiting for her answer.

"O, damn!" Logan ran up the stairs to his room and he put on the first clothes he could find, when his cell phone rang. He was trying to put on his T-shirt, while he picked up the phone. "Hi."

"Logan," it was Veronica's voice. "You…"

"I'm coming," Logan interrupted her. He grabbed his shoes and tried to put them on using one hand.

"You don't have to. Duncan just called. He's driving me to school."

Logan stopped with putting his shoes on and managed to say: "O…"

"He's taking me to his room at Neptune Grand after school."

Logan heard she was smiling. That's what made him angry. "See you at school." He hung up and cursed, throwing his cell phone onto his bed.

Veronica smiled when she saw Duncan and gave him a kiss on his lips and said "I like your shirt" to say 'hello'.

"Hi," he answered smiling. "How are you?"

"Fine, I guess," Veronica answered. "Senior year," she added with a funny face.

Duncan laughed and got into the car. Veronica followed his example and did the same.

When Duncan looked at her again, he saw a serious face. "What's the serious face for?"

"Did you see the news last night?" Veronica asked after considering if she should say it or not.

"No… I didn't," Duncan answered while he started the car.

"There was something about a man and a woman… Murdered, I think… They each had a bullet in their head."

"I really wanted to hear that," Duncan said sarcastic.

"I'm sorry," Veronica said and turned so she looked through the window in front of her. "I just can't let it go."

"I know you can't," Duncan said before he gave her a kiss on her head. While driving to school, they both didn't speak. Veronica was still thinking about the murder and Duncan let her think about it.

Logan ran downstairs again, still angry. He couldn't control it. When he jumped over the last step and reached the ground, he sat down trying to calm down.

After a few minutes he looked up again and saw Julia kneeling in front of him. "Are you okay?"

He saw doubt in her eyes. "Yes. I'm fine." He got up and walked to the front door of the house.

Julia followed him. "About that bus…"

"No bus. I'm driving." He grabbed his keys and went outside, holding the door, waiting for Julia to go outside. When she finally did, he locked the door.

Dick was leaning against his car, waiting for Logan to arrive. When he finally saw Logan's car, he walked towards it.

After parking the car, Logan got out and grabbed his books.

"Logan!" Dick grinned. "You're late! Veronica and Duncan already arrived. The looked like they were having a pretty good time. You should've seen them, they…" Dick stopped talking when he saw Julia, who had gotten out of the car and walked to the back of it. She looked around.

"Wow… Where did you find her?" He looked at Logan.

"I didn't find her," Logan said as he began walking to the table, where Duncan and Veronica sat. "She rents a room at my house."

Julia followed Logan and began walking next to Dick. "Where did they find you?" she asked him.

Dick looked surprised as he turned his head to Julia.

"I think they found you on the street and had to bleach your hair, because it was so dirty, you weren't able to wash it. Am I right?" She smiled at him, teasing.

"No! You're not!" Dick almost shouted. He was shocked, did not know what to say more.

Logan sat down when they had reached the table.

"Hi," Duncan said to Logan, who nodded at him. He watched Julia when she sat down.

"Well… I'm going to find my brother," Dick said when everyone sat.

"Bye Blondie!" Julia said to him as she watched him leave.

Logan chuckled. "He's having the best day of his life."

He was surprised Veronica did not react. She must have heard the sarcasm in his voice, hadn't she?

"What's wrong with her?" Logan asked, pointing at Veronica.

"I'll tell you, if you tell who she is." Duncan pointed at Julia.

"I'm Julia," Julia answered instead of Logan. "I rent a room at Logan's."

"Oh… That's right. He was going to rent a room. You in senior year?"

"Yes. It's probably stupid to change schools when you're in your last year, but I needed to get away from everything."

"Where did you…?" Duncan began a question, but Logan interrupted him.

"You know who she is now. What's wrong with her?" Again he pointed at Veronica.

"She's thinking about a murder. It happened not far from here," Duncan answered.

"Oh… That murder thing? It was on the news last night."

"You watched the news?" Duncan could not believe what he heard.

"Julia wanted to see it, I watched it with her."

"You don't seem to be a girl that wants to watch the news," Duncan said looking at Julia.

Julia took a deep breath. "I… I lived there. Before I came to Neptune."

Veronica seemed to come to live again, because she looked up at Julia. "Did you know the man and the woman?"

Julia was stunned.

"Don't mind that." Logan said to her. "Her dad is a private investigator. En she sometimes thinks she's one too." He grinned sarcastic.

Veronica did the same and then looked back at Julia, still expecting an answer.

Julia took a deep breath again, looked around for a few moments and then looked at Veronica again. "Yes. I did know them. I knew them very well, actually."